La Vieille Auberge

Sleeping in the Mont Saint-Michel is an incomparable experience, a privilege, and has a price. You pay mostly for the location. Either you accept it and you can indulge, or you don't sleep intra-muros... La Vieille Auberge is one the cheapest hotels that we found. And I can say that our experience exceeded our expectations. We were put in a room at l'Annexe, which is located near St Peter's Parish Church (Église St-Pierre) and not on the ramparts in front of the bay. It initially turned us off, but when we discovered that we still have a view on the bay and that we could observe the tides, we were delighted. Every building in the Mont Saint-Michel has its charm anyway. We were pleasantly surprised by the comfort and cleanliness in the room, quite modern indeed. I had already stayed at l'Annexe of Le Mouton Blanc, another hotel, and the experience wasn't that good. We didn't have any meal in the Mont Saint-Michel, because we know restaurants are overpriced and average or bad. We brought our own food and advise people to do the same :) One tip to know if you come by car: call or email the hotel less than 24h before to get the access code to parking P3, which is reserved for intro-muros hotels. It's just next to the bus terminal :) You pay when you leave.

The reception was quite ice cold. There was initially only 1 young lady, who was starting on that day and hadn't been told what to do (the main alley was blocked by plumbing works, so we had to go to l'Auberge Saint-Pierre for our check-in. We didn't expect a warm reception (the Mont is quite a special place...) but this one was really cold. Specially from the young staff who took care of us.